• Webinar

  Webinars | North America Power Market Spring 2025 Outlooks

  • 24 2月 2025

  Join Wood Mackenzie’s marketing intelligence research analysts and meteorologists in this upcoming series of trading analytics "Seasonal Spring Power Market Outlook Webinars", as they take a look at how US RTOs have been performing and present their expectations for the 2025 season.

• Platform

  Lens platform: Lens Energy Storage

  • 25 2月 2025

  Stay abreast of the latest market trends and developments with Lens Energy Storage. Our product delivers insights on the unique commercial and technological opportunities driving demand for battery energy storage.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Eye on the tiger

  • 09 4月 2025

  What if India’s growth matched China’s 2000's boom? Explore the global energy ripple effects in this month’s Horizons Live.

• News Release

  US wind market installations hit a decade low

  • 08 4月 2025

  The U.S. wind market continued a downward trend in 2024, with 5.2 gigawatts (GW) of total installations, the lowest in 10 years, according to the U.S. Wind Energy Monitor report released by Wood Mackenzie. The report shows that 3.9 GW of onshore builds came online last year, along with 1.3 GW of onshore repowers and 101 megawatts (MW) of installed offshore capacity.

• Webinar

  Webinar:Powering Smarter Trading Decisions in Short-Term Power Markets

  • 27 5月 2025

  Our host and experts will explore how to power smarter trading decisions in short-term power markets using high-frequency data, forecasting and actionable insights. They’ll discuss the advantages of proprietary data over public sources, demonstrate how Intraday Price Predict supports real-time decision-making, and highlight how Power Trading Analytics platform (PTA) helps unify key market signals into actionable insights.

• News Release

  European renewable PPA market sees 19GW of new capacity contracted in 2024

  • 15 4月 2025

  The European renewable energy Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) market demonstrated strong recovery in 2024, with nearly 19 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity contracted, according to the latest Europe Renewables PPA Tracker report released by Wood Mackenzie. The report highlights a surge in PPA activity, with Spain and Germany leading the market, accounting for 30% of total capacity. Solar PV and wind projects represented approximately 80% of contracted capacity, with each technology contributing similar volumes. Poland, the UK and Greece entered the top five across all deal types (corporate, route-to-market and utility).

• News Release

  US energy dominance faces long-term challenges

  • 17 4月 2025

  While the United States currently dominates global oil and gas production, it faces significant challenges to maintaining the same level of leadership in the coming decades, according to the latest Horizons report from Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  In 2025, Up to 3.5 Mcmd in play as spot gas market challenges firm contracts in Brazil

  • 30 4月 2025

  Brazil's Local Distribution Company (LDC) market dynamics are set for significant changes in 2025, with a notable shift towards spot market transactions, according to a recent report from Wood Mackenzie.

• Webinar

  Webinar | Europe’s power market transition

  • 24 6月 2025

  Join Wood Mackenzie as as our experts share their insight into the evolving dynamics of markets, the outlook for wholesale, capacity market, ancillary and fair value PPA prices in major European markets, and batteries' role in unlocking the renewable transition.

• News Release

  Proposed US House budget reconciliation bill poses many challenges to renewable energy industry

  • 15 5月 2025

  Solar, wind, and energy storage forecasts potentially downgraded, while 95% of announced green hydrogen projects are at risk.

• News Release

  Q3 U.S. grid-scale energy storage market sets new record

  • 15 12月 2022

  The U.S. energy storage market grid-scale segment installed a record 4,733 megawatt-hours (MWh) in the third quarter of 2022, surpassing the previous quarterly high of 4,598 MWh in Q1 of 2021, according to a new report released today. On a single charge, this amount of battery storage could power over 150,000 U.S. homes for a day.

• News Release

  Long-duration energy storage projects attract more than US $58 billion investment over last three years

  • 07 12月 2022

  Long-duration storage energy (LDES) projects around the world have attracted more than US $58 billion in commitments made by governments and companies since 2019. If all these projects went forward, it would lead to the installation of 57 gigawatts (GW) of LDES – the equivalent of three times the global energy-storage capacity deployed in 2022, according to analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  Trade and supply chain barriers delay impact of historic clean energy law

  • 13 12月 2022

  The U.S. added 4.6 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in Q3 2022, a 17% decrease from the same quarter last year as trade barriers and ongoing supply chain constraints continue to slow America’s clean energy progress. These disruptions will cause a 23% decline in solar installations this year compared to 2021, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q4 2022 report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business.

• Opinion

  Horizons Live: Boom time

  • 06 2月 2023

  On this month’s Horizons Live, we discuss what the Inflation Reduction Act means for US renewables manufacturers.

• News Release

  Wood Mackenzie Launches the Electric Vehicles and Battery Supply Chain Service at Mining Indaba 2023

  • 06 2月 2023

  Wood Mackenzie, the leading provider of decision intelligence for the world’s natural resources sector, today launched the Electric Vehicles and Battery Supply Chain Service (EVBSC) at the Mining Indaba 2023 conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The EVBSC is a new product that provides end-to-end detailed analysis and forecasts of the electric transportation value chain including quarterly long-term outlooks to 2050 and 10-year forecasts, and monthly short-term reports and data for EV, Li-ion battery and raw materials (lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite and manganese) markets.

• News Release

  Veritas Capital completes acquisition of Wood Mackenzie

  • 02 2月 2023

  Veritas Capital (“Veritas”), a leading investor at the intersection of technology and government, today announced that an affiliate of Veritas has completed the purchase of Wood Mackenzie from Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK).

• Opinion

  Debut of the first EU carbon border tax

  • 30 1月 2023

  In December, 2022, the EU reached a provisional agreement on a first-of-its-kind Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

• News Release

  US climate bill to boost domestic annual renewables investment to nearly US$114 billion by 2031

  • 19 1月 2023

  The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), flagship legislation focused on accelerating decarbonisation in the US, will significantly boost annual investment into renewable energy deployment in the region. A rise from US$64 billion in 2022 to nearly US$114 billion is expected by 2031, according to Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk business (Nasdaq: VRSK).

• News Release

  Renewable power competitiveness in Asia Pacific worsened in 2022

  • 14 2月 2023

  The levelised costs of electricity (LCOE) for utility solar and onshore wind in Asia Pacific were up 16% and 12% respectively since 2020, as equipment, construction costs and interest rates rose in the region. The trend is expected to reverse in 2023, but volatility risks including geopolitical tensions, trade policy and financing remain according to latest analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  US community solar growth slowed 16% in 2022; national market expected to double by 2027

  • 15 2月 2023

  US community solar installed capacity declined 16% in 2022 compared to last year, primarily driven by interconnection delays hindering growth in key state markets such as Massachusetts, Maine, and Maryland. Industry-wide supply chain constraints also pushed project timelines into 2023, according to the latest report released by Wood Mackenzie in collaboration with the Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA).

• News Release

  US energy storage market continues to expand rapidly

  • 15 3月 2023

  Across all segments of the industry, the U.S. energy storage market installed 4.8 gigawatts (GW) of capacity in 2022, nearly equal to the combined 2020 and 2021 installed capacity of 5 GW, becoming a record year for battery storage. This is according to ACP and Wood Mackenzie’s latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report released today.

• Webinar

  EV charging energy management for workplaces, businesses and fleets

  • 12 4月 2023

  PowerFlex joins Wood Mackenzie on this webinar replay to discuss important energy management tools and strategies for installing and operating EV charging solutions onsite.

• News Release

  China drives global wind turbine orders to new record in 2022

  • 08 3月 2023

  Global wind turbine order intake hit new highs in 2022, with 44 gigawatts (GW) procured in Q4 and 134.6 GW for the year, both records. Dominated by activity in China, annual investment reached an estimated $74.2 billion, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  Global wind energy to top 1 TW threshold by the end of 2023

  • 11 4月 2023

  The global wind energy market will pass the one terawatt (TW) threshold for installed capacity by the end of 2023, according to the latest market outlook from Wood Mackenzie.

• News Release

  California dwarfs all other VPP markets in North America

  • 29 3月 2023

  California dwarfs all virtual power plant (VPP) markets in North America, housing 24% of projects in the region, according to Wood Mackenzie’s ‘North America VPP market: H1 2023’ report.

• News Release

  Wood Mackenzie appoints new Chief Financial Officer

  • 27 3月 2023

  Wood Mackenzie, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, has appointed Simon Crowe to its global executive leadership team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective 27th March.

• News Release

  US$36.4B of grid modernization planned by investor-owned utilities

  • 18 4月 2023

  In efforts to modernize distribution grids, 25 investor-owned utilities (IOU) have filed for $36.4 billion of investment.

• The Edge

  Storage, the energy transition’s flexible friend

  • 30 4月 2019

  Simon Flowers investigates storage's emerging role in balancing intermittent renewables.

• Editorial

  Europe power markets, Chevron-Anadarko acquisition, global LNG shipping

  • 19 4月 2019

  What's new in store? Get the highlights from some of our most popular insights across the entire natural resources value chain. This week, the long-term outlook for Europe power markets, the Chevron acquisition of Anadarko and more.

• Editorial

  Global energy storage market takes off

  • 23 4月 2019

  2018 was a record-breaking year for energy storage. The market looks set to flourish as the energy transition accelerates. Find out what's behind the boom and which countries are leading the change.